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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"frenzy"”.
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Frenzy in early modern England, 1485–1640
… on the condition known to contemporaries as ‘frenzy’. Frenzy was an inflammation of the brain which caused dramatic changes to mood, speech, cognition, and behaviour. It was understood to be capable of spreading throughout the whole person, disordering the reason, will, memory, and passions, …
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A Fine Frenzy: A Sociological Analysis of the Field of Contemporary British Poetry
To date, there has been very little sociological research on the field of poetry, and even less on the field of British poetry. To rectify this oversight, my study systematically examines the specific ‘logic of the field’ of contemporary British poetry – that is, the career trajectories, …
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Eye for the Gap: Frenzy, Liberty, and the Nietszchean Chorus in Conor McPherson's The Weir and Shining City
<p>This study situates <em>The Weir</em> and <em>Shining City</em> by Conor McPherson as embodying elements of Dionysian aesthetics as elucidated by Friedrich Nietzsche. Working through the lenses of Samuel Beckett’s linguistic philosophy and the premium of theater as established by Nietzsche, …
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Thinking through the politics of shame as a contemporary form of colonial discourse : analysing media representations of the Baby Tshepang rape case
… the rape of baby Tshepang triggered a media frenzy in the small community of Louisvale, located in the Northern Cape. An overarching theme of shame dominated how journalists represented the event. The label "A Town of Shame" stuck onto Louisvale through the mobilization of colonial and gender …
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Mold fever : how a bizarre life form penetrated popular consciousness and launched a creeping hysteria
… of indoor mold and health, and the profit-making frenzy that capitalized on mold fever.
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Poetic expression in architecture
… What has been pushed aside in this mind-cleaning frenzy is that other side of human nature, the speculative, imaginative side, a side no less important than the definitive and rational one. My purpose in this thesis is to use poetry--that is, poetic verse--as a model for relearning the expression …
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Blogonomics : business and social changes from the blog
… 2003, Blogs as well as wikis started the Web 2.0 frenzy with online community networks and user generated content. Web 2.0 has recently cooled down, but it may have started a new era. The purpose of this paper is to explore the blogonomics - the business, as well as social, changes blogs have …
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CHAMELEON BOY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LITERARY CRITIQUE OF BIRACIAL SUBJECTS IN A RACIALIZED SOCIETY
… subject throws the sorting machine into a frenzy. Unable to categorize the racially ambiguous, American society chooses to conflate their physicality to another ethnic group or race or write them off as Other. The late Gloria Anzaldua’s investigation into the limitless possibilities present …
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Intrusion detection and prevention in advanced metering networks
… all over the world in a very short time. In this frenzy of excitement, security of AMI, an issue of utmost importance, may have been overlooked. In this work, we present our in-depth study of the vulnerabilities in AMI to cyber-attacks. We also propose a scalable, content-aware methodology to stop …
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The Raven : an opera in one act
… alone, slowly, painfully working himself into a frenzy of grief over the loss of his young wife, Lenore. This is the image in my mind when I read Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece, "The Raven". Such an elegantly dramatic image, told in such vivid, musical language, seems made to be an opera, and yet …
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Agri-industrial park : strategies for transformation of Linpan countryside of Chengdu plain, China
… fewer job opportunities. At the same time, the frenzy of Industry Park and Office Park developments, which started in the 1990s, is taking vast farmland from countryside, especially in peri-urban area. The process of land acquisition removes all the famers and existing agriculture elements. …
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Generation gaps in engineering?
… themselves are even real. Despite the frenzy, however, there has been relatively limited empirical research performed on this issue; in particular, no empirical research in the context of an engineering organization seems to have been performed. With that in mind, the main intent of the …
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Wendell Berry's Philosophy Of Education: Lessons From Port William
… learning modules, in the speculative frenzy of preparing students for the careers of a fantasy future, and in the swirl of angst about funding accountability and economic relevance, Wendell Berry's philosophy of education declares that the essential element missing from most current …
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The Welsh Revival (1904-1905): Recovering the Role of Welsh Women
… country was engulfed in an emotional, religious frenzy, which many believed to be the work of God. Previous research has focused on the role of Evan Roberts, the enigmatic revivalist who was portrayed as the divinely appointed leader of the movement. My original contribution to knowledge is an …
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Parody and nostalgia : contemporary re-writing of Madame White Snake
Between 1950s and 1990s, Hong Kong had a frenzy for writing and re-writing materials from classical literature and myths. The myth of Madame White Snake is one of the most well known stories that survived a long period of time. The earliest known version of Madame White Snake was a supernatural …
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Darkness in the shadows: post-conflict trauma and the documentary image
… However, when the bright lights and media frenzy had moved on, difficult legacies of the conflict remained to be addressed. In particular, the growing community of victims and survivors suffering psychological trauma and social exclusion from the effects of over thirty years of political …
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The Writing on the Wall: Chinese-American Immigrants' Fight for Equality: 1850-1943
… enter the United States, leading to a Sinophobic frenzy that would continue for decades. Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, Americans sought to exclude the Chinese literally and figuratively. Americans employed negative imagery to …
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Greater Jacksonville's Response to the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s
… the expanding numbers of land buyers created a frenzy of real estate sales and development downstate. The most immediate effect of the boom for Jacksonville was tremendous expansion of the city's industries, as they provisioned the state. However, many local residents became interested in …
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Making Waves : the past futures of Azerbaijan's islands
… of design speculations meant to question the frenzy around capitalist urban development in emerging 'world-class" cities. It particularly studies how post-extraction economies are restructuring the industrial city to promote it as a site of leisure, tourism and real-estate. This transition …
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Outsourcing the internal audit function with special reference to the UK public and private sectors
… has not been left untouched by the outsourcing frenzy either. Apart from looking at the factors acting as the main driving force behind the decision to outsource the internal audit function, the thesis also examines how internal audit is perceived and the likely impact an outsourcing decision …
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